Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay opened his 2026 season the way a nation likes to see it: arms up, sprint line won, and the long wait finally over. Girmay powered to victory on Stage 1 of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana , delivering an immediate payoff on his debut with NSN Cycling
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed stood in Ethiopia’s parliament today and tried a quiet pivot: the standoff with Eritrea, he argued, isn’t really about Ethiopia’s campaign for “access to the sea.” It’s about alleged Eritrean crimes during the Tigray war—claims he bundled into a single s
On Thursday Jan. 30 2026, Eritrea's Information Minister Yemane G. Meskel cut through weeks of Addis Ababa’s noisy “sovereign sea access” messaging with a blunt reminder: access to ports is commerce and transit — not entitlement, not “historical destiny,” and not a blank cheque f
South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, is teetering on the brink of a devastating return to full-scale war. While international attention is often diverted, the country is experiencing a severe political, humanitarian, and security crisis, fuelled by a collapsing peace deal, v
When President Isaias Afwerki was asked about Ethiopia’s “Two Waters” rhetoric and escalating war language on January 12, 2026, his response was unusually curt. The question, he said, should not even have been asked. That dismissal wasn’t evasion. It was diagnosis. Afwerki redu
What Addis Ababa has spent two years denying is now staring it in the face—on White House letterhead. The January 16 letter from Donald Trump to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi isn’t just about mediation. It’s a signal. Clear, deliberate, and consequential. Washington is aligning itself
A Regional Security Threat and Potential for Destabilisation of the Horn of Africa, the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden Regions and Redrawing the Map of the Horn of Africa On December 26, 2025, the State of Israel announced its formal recognition of the Republic of Somaliland as an
Somalia’s Council of Ministers has formally terminated all bilateral security and defence agreements with the United Arab Emirates, marking one of the most consequential foreign-policy moves taken by the federal government in recent years. In a cabinet decision adopted on Sunday,
Israel’s announcement on Thursday recognizing Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state has triggered immediate diplomatic fallout across the Horn of Africa and the Middle East, reopening long-standing legal and geopolitical fault lines rather than delivering the stability
In a world crowded with assumptions and secondhand narratives, firsthand testimony matters. Over the past two years, the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Eritrea has offered exactly that: a grounded, lived account of a country often discussed from afar but rarely understood
Sudan is not asking the world for sympathy. It is asking for seriousness. That message came through clearly at the United Nations on Monday, as Sudan’s Prime Minister laid out a peace initiative framed not as a pause in violence, but as a realistic, enforceable exit from war . I
There are moments in diplomacy when silence is louder than words. And there are moments when a picture—deliberately chosen, officially circulated—does more damage than a thousand speeches. The map displayed this week in a video released by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister’s Office belon
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